A lady is standing in an elevator. She has high cheekbones and kajal-rimmed eyes. She stands tall in her stiletto heels and knee-length black skirt. Her legs look flawless except for a scar on her right shin. This happened when she had gone on a holiday to a farm outside Mumbai when she was a child. She tried to climb a fence with barbed wire and her leg grazed against a sharp edge. Blood flowed. She cried. Her parents took her to a local nursing home where they stitched the wound. But a permanent scar remained. Poonam Sharma, 32, is the Vice President of Public Relations of the ‘Get High’ liquor company. She is about to step into her office in Mumbai. The company is doing well. Its premium rums, brandies, and whiskeys are doing well. Their biggest markets are in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chandigarh. Poonam has…
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